One hundred couples tied the knot at a mass wedding at the main mosque in Nigeria’s second-largest city, part of an Islamic police programme aimed at promoting stable families.
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1,500 children in Nigerian village suffer lead-poisoning
International medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says that 1,500 children in a mining village in northwest Nigeria have suffered lead-poisoning and are not receiving care.
7 killed in central Nigeria area divided by faith
Gunmen set fire to a home in a Christian village near a central Nigeria city violently divided by faith.
Herdsmen hack to death sleeping family
Suspected Muslim herdsmen in Nigeria have hacked and shot to death seven sleeping family members at a Christian village in the volatile central Plateau state, officials said.
Sleeping Nigerian family hacked to death
Suspected Muslim herdsmen in Nigeria have hacked and shot to death seven sleeping family members at a Christian village in the volatile central Plateau state.
Shell shuts down Nigeria pipeline over theft
Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has shut down a major pipeline running through Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta because it had been repeatedly targeted by thieves.
Nigeria cattle market attack toll at 56: nurse
Gunmen set off explosives and fired on a cattle market in remote north-eastern Nigeria overnight, killing at least 56 people, a nurse who received bodies in the local hospital said on Thursday.
Bomb hits police convoy in Nigeria’s Taraba state, kills 11
A bomb blast struck a police chief’s convoy in eastern Nigeria on Monday, killing 11 people, a witness and an official said, a day after attacks in other areas killed at least 19.
Bomb hits police convoy in Nigeria’s Taraba state, kills 11
A bomb blast struck a police chief’s convoy in eastern Nigeria today, killing 11 people, a witness and an official said, a day after attacks in other areas killed at least 19.
Nigeria journalists become target of radical sect
Nigeria journalists, already the targets of threats and bribes, face a new danger after a radical Islamist sect bombed the offices of a major newspaper in the country.